tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26687928732789158772024-03-05T21:50:25.550-05:00The Sirianni FamilyOur life is His.The Sirianni Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12451594442072896852noreply@blogger.comBlogger314125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668792873278915877.post-48297336271756966482014-02-07T17:05:00.001-05:002014-02-07T18:38:38.135-05:00Congenital Heart Disease Awareness Week 2014<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hi, I’m Ashley I have been married to my wonderful husband, Ian for 8 years on February 11th. After being married for 2 years we decided to start trying to get pregnant. Little did we know that it would take quite some time to get pregnant. A year and a half later, 2 miscarriages and a diagnosis of Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase also known of MTHFR, we found out we were expecting. At my 20 week ultrasound we found out that our little one had congenital heart disease (CHD) with an exact diagnosis of Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) with Pulmonary Atresia (PA). At 38 weeks pregnant I was induced to have our firstborn. He was stubborn he didn’t want to come out and to be honest I was so torn, as much as I wanted to meet our little one and finally find out if we have a little boy or girl I wanted to keep our little one inside forever where I felt like he would be safe from what was to come. Owen came into the world on October 21st, 2009 at 2:38 am weighing 5lbs 6ozs and 18 inches long. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We got to hold and love on our little guy for about 5 minutes before he was taken away to the cardiac intensive care unit where he would undergo many procedures and tests. We were told to expect for Owen to have open heart surgery at birth. Owen didn’t require any surgeries at birth and came home from the hospital when he was about a week old. Owen did so well. He had frequent appointments with his cardiologist to closely monitor his heart and his weight. When Owen was just over 2 months old the back of his eyes started looking quite yellow to me. I called his pediatrician and they ran blood work. His liver functions and bilirubin levels came back very elevated. He was immediately admitted to the hospital where we found out that he could either have Biliary Atresia (BA) or Alagilles Syndrome (ALGS). Owen underwent a Kasai (liver surgery) in hopes to help his liver drain bile. It is safe to say that Owens Kasai was unsuccessful. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Owen was placed on the liver transplant list at 6 ½ months old. His health was rapidly degrading and we had no clue and the doctors caring for him really didn’t realize just how sick he was. Owen went into cardiac arrest on his 7 month birthday and came out of it, but sadly only 6 days later on May 27th 2010 after having a PICC line placed Owen went into cardiac arrest again and went to be with Jesus. That had to have been the hardest day of my life to that date. We found out a week before Owen died that Owen in fact had ALGS and not BA and that I was a carrier of ALGS with a 50% chance of any other children being born with this syndrome. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">more children. We found out we were expecting our second about 4 months after losing Owen. At our 20 week ultrasound we found out again that our second born had CHD with an almost exact heart diagnosis as Owen. Cole came into the world on May 31st, 2011 weighing 6lbs 5 oz and 18 inches long. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We were warned that they would take Cole away right at birth to the CICU so it came as a shock to me when the Pediatric doctor that would be caring for Cole at birth came in and said “treat this birth as though it is a healthy baby” I cried. They let me hold Cole the second he was born for much longer then we were able to hold Owen. Cole required more procedures and tests then Owen did at birth including a heart catheterization. Cole was released from the hospital when he was about a week old. Cole too had many cardiology appointments and had his first open heart surgery when he was 2 months old. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It was very stressful as a momma to watch my baby endure so much pain. Cole did very well after his surgery and was released from the hospital just 5 days later. We knew Cole would require multiple open heart surgeries and frequent heart catheterizations throughout his life. Fast forward 4 months Cole had his second heart catheterization that was hopefully going to help stent his Pulmonary arteries so we could wait a bit longer for his next open heart surgery, but his arteries were so tiny that we needed to schedule Cole’s next open heart surgery sooner rather than later. On January 24th, 2012 Cole went into his second open heart surgery and never came out of it. It came as a big shock to us to lose not just one child, but now a second. It’s been a rough life for Ian and I, but God is good He is faithful to bless us with peace and hope in our hearts for a day greater then we could ever imagine when we will be reunited with our precious boys and worshipping our God forever. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I don’t share our sob story for no reason. My desire is to bring awareness to Congenital Heart Disease (CHD). CHD awareness week is February 7th-14th. Approximately 40,000 babies are born each year in the United States with a CHD. That equates to 1 out of 125 babies born with a heart defect. It is the #1 birth defect yet many are unaware of this condition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It’s been 2 years since losing Cole and 2 years of hoping and praying for another little baby to fill our hearts and home (not to replace either of our boys.) We underwent IVF with PGD in November 2012 with hopes for a healthy baby, but it was unsuccessful resulting in an ectopic pregnancy and lots of debt. We would love to do IVF again once it is financially possible for us. </span></div>
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<br />The Sirianni Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12451594442072896852noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668792873278915877.post-55452900487508588232012-10-21T19:07:00.001-04:002012-10-21T19:07:31.066-04:00Happy birthday Owen! <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDYD9pfH4ToBHzWu4TPzbMwAOLgewD6J7OQ7fcyBdlAgU3wNxY6ksW-f9trtXnYxw0WjWls73QznoanirP_QPeSHIyzakqxqMM7-ALTaJxGq3Ki97FPDVfaV_x5nSLNO9RhE99TIMpIoM/"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDYD9pfH4ToBHzWu4TPzbMwAOLgewD6J7OQ7fcyBdlAgU3wNxY6ksW-f9trtXnYxw0WjWls73QznoanirP_QPeSHIyzakqxqMM7-ALTaJxGq3Ki97FPDVfaV_x5nSLNO9RhE99TIMpIoM/" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left cursor: pointer;" height="299px" width="320px" /></a><br><p dir=ltr>Miss you, buddy.<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07395842471931441308noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668792873278915877.post-17182853080687298062012-06-08T21:30:00.000-04:002012-06-08T22:02:15.266-04:00Pasta Dinner<br />
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Happy Birthday Cole. Hope it's better for you then it is for us.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07395842471931441308noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668792873278915877.post-47858780074953423522012-05-27T21:29:00.003-04:002012-05-27T21:29:40.090-04:00Saying Goodbye too soonToday marks 2 years that Owen went to heaven. I remember all too well May 27th, 2010..... The sounds of all the alarms as Owen was "coding" the visions of nurses trying to resuscitate him... Letting him go.... That was the hardest thing I have ever had to do in my whole life.. That horrible day that I wish I could erase from history. I feel like I have too many days that I wish I could erase from history. I wish I had both of my boys here with me. Clearly God has other plans for us. I will never understand why He took both of our boys let alone either of them. My heart hurts when I think of all the pain Owen had to endure in his 7 months and 6 days that he graced this earth. You would have never known he was in any pain. Looking back now I know that he was in pain. Sweet sweet boy... <br />
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We miss you Cole!The Sirianni Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12451594442072896852noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668792873278915877.post-10307739456915932582012-02-29T07:47:00.003-05:002012-02-29T07:47:45.087-05:00PhilippinesWe've been pretty busy over here in the Philippines. We are usually up around 6am and are getting ready to go out to various ministries in the morning. On Monday we visited the women's group that they call the "Deborahs." Today we visited the Men's group called "Barnabas." These small groups of people are the future of the ministry. The goal at Lambat is to train and equip leaders for the communities to preach the gospel. In the afternoons we've been doing alot of tourist-e things. We went into old Manilla and experienced the craziness that is the capital city. The ministry we were planning on going to tomorrow is being discontinued so instead we are going hiking on the Taal Volcano. I've been shooting between 500-1000 photos a day and I'm pretty busy in trying to keep my head above editing them all. The Philippines is super Americanized and their malls are unbelievably huge with about 15 {no lie} workers per department of the store. You're constantly followed by a worker and they're super friendly. We'll probably write out each day with pictures when we get home.The Sirianni Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12451594442072896852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668792873278915877.post-20629955287803627962012-02-25T04:04:00.002-05:002012-02-25T04:04:55.440-05:00The flight over here to the Philippines wasn't so bad. They constantly feed you and the movies they had playing were just barely interesting enough to watch. We didn't even start the books we brought along to read. We might of slept two of the twenty-two hour flight. We lucked out as our row of four seats only had three people sitting in them. Both our lay overs in Detroit and Japan were less than an hour long which was great. In Japan; Ashley was talking to a filippino woman who was worried Ashley wasn't going to be safe and was asking her all kinds of questions about where we were going and why on earth would you go to the philippines. <br />
Our first stop on our way home from the airport is of course the 24 hour McDonalds. We got fries which tasted better then back home. I'd like go to back sometime this week and get some rice and fried chicken. We went to bed around three am and got up around 7 to meet Lori Ann. She is the executive director of Lambat and is the one that I am teaching photography to. We went out and did some sight seeing touristy things after going over photography basics.<br />
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Today we went and visited the kids bible classes. They teach a 10 and under class that meets in somebodies driveway and they feed the kids, too. To some of the kids this maybe the only meal they eat for the day. While the kids were still in class we left and went and visited the riverside, which is where they live... in shoddy, make shift huts down an embankment next to the river. They also do one on one bible studies with the parents in their homes. We will upload pictures when we get back to the states. It took over a half hour just to upload the one of the volcano above. <br />
Tomorrow night we will be going to a bamboo festival <a href="http://www.bambooman.com/bamboo_organ.php">http://www.bambooman.com/bamboo_organ.php</a><br />The Sirianni Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12451594442072896852noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668792873278915877.post-88454791432360885682012-02-21T22:25:00.001-05:002012-02-21T22:25:30.982-05:00A Ticket Out of HereTomorrow early afternoon we are leaving for the Philippines. Tonight, we are staying over night in LaGuardia near the airport so we don't have to worry about fighting traffic and risk missing our flight tomorrow. Not to mention how early we would have to get up in the morning to get to the airport by 10:30am. We will be traveling for a total of 21 hours. We will have internet access when in the Philippines so be on the look out for some updates. <br />
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Thanks for your prayers for safe travels.The Sirianni Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12451594442072896852noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668792873278915877.post-51000421441782943382012-02-07T08:19:00.001-05:002012-02-07T08:19:55.004-05:00Two Weeks AgoAs I reflect back on two weeks ago today I remember walking into CHOP on the morning of Coles open heart surgery. I was carrying Cole into the hospital and he had a huge smile on his face and was kicking his legs, he was so excited. I thought to myself "Oh buddy if only you knew..." I have to believe that he was probably thinking to hisself "Oh mommy if only you knew that I am going to go be with Jesus and Owen today..." <br />
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Oh Cole, Momma misses you dearly sweet boy.The Sirianni Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12451594442072896852noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668792873278915877.post-53952390524576505702012-02-02T19:30:00.000-05:002012-02-02T19:30:00.413-05:00Missions TripWe have been invited by Lambat Ministries to go to the Philippines from February 22-March 5th.<br />
We will be photographing different aspects of their ministry, for use on a new website, for promo shots, publications, etc. We will also be giving the executive director a crash course in photography with the purpose of her being able to keep updating things as time goes on. We both are really excited about this opportunity. The 23 hour flight...not so much.<br />
Below is a summary of Lambat Ministries:<br />
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We (Lambat), teach, train and equip pastors and teachers there with<br />
free teaching/training seminars and free Biblically based materials to<br />
participating churches. We reach about 15,000 or so people. It's<br />
huge. It's expanded so much that our materials are now getting into<br />
public schools and local governments cause there's no separation of<br />
church and state there.<br />
We have materials from pre-K through 12 grade. We have courses<br />
specifically for pastors and teachers. And for pastors, seminary type<br />
courses.<br />
We promote Bible clubs,which are weekly, or twice a week 'sunday school' type things in the<br />
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Special thanks to the <a href="http://www.williampenninn.com/">William Penn Inn</a> and <a href="http://villagecaterers.com/">Village Caterers</a> for providing the luncheon and planning it before we even thought about it!<br />
<a href="http://www.suessfuneralhome.net/">Suess and Sadler Funeral Homes</a> for providing their exceptional services totally free. Preplan your funerals with them.{seriously}<br />
And thankyou to the random person who gave the funeral home an extremely generous tip. Thankyou.<br />
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<br />The Sirianni Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12451594442072896852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668792873278915877.post-5766717241959896142012-01-25T18:39:00.001-05:002012-01-25T18:39:41.767-05:00Cole's memorial service is going to be at Branch Creek Church on Sumneytown Pike in Harleysville, on Friday January 27th at 10am. There is no viewing. Thankyou.The Sirianni Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12451594442072896852noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668792873278915877.post-38172070442742886682012-01-24T17:08:00.001-05:002012-01-24T17:08:24.088-05:001<br>For those who haven't heard, Cole is with his brother Owen.<br />The Sirianni Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12451594442072896852noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668792873278915877.post-79295893374225529602012-01-24T12:49:00.001-05:002012-01-24T12:49:26.460-05:00Pray<br>Cole isn't doing well. They are taking him to the Cath lab to see why his oxygen is so low. We need a miracle.<br />The Sirianni Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12451594442072896852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668792873278915877.post-66673357897291874852012-01-24T11:23:00.001-05:002012-01-24T11:23:51.789-05:00Update 2<br>Still in. Doing well <br />The Sirianni Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12451594442072896852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668792873278915877.post-34813408153569626732012-01-24T10:01:00.000-05:002012-01-24T10:01:13.242-05:009:45 updateWe just got our first hourly update. They just finished prepping him and opening him up and are about to start with the repair.<br />
Cole did great. Everyone can't believe he didn't cry at all while they checked his vitals and did all that stuff. Our cardiologist came by right before he went back with anesteia. We went up to talk with Cole's surgeon and he explained what he planned on doing. Pulling out the shunt they previously put in and add some conduits to his PAs hoping to help them grow. More in an hour...The Sirianni Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12451594442072896852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668792873278915877.post-17876723303313095822012-01-23T18:02:00.000-05:002012-01-23T18:02:14.456-05:00Pre-OP VisitWe are sitting in our room at the RMH while Cole takes his first real nap of the day. We had a crazy morning of packing and getting the house in order to leave for the next week or so. The appointment was at 2pm and couldn't have gone better. One of Cole's surgeon' minions came in and explained everything we needed to know about the surgery. Up until talking to her we both were pretty in the dark as to what they were going to do or even what the options were. She made sure we understood everything and how they do it all. <br />
We have to be at CHOP at 6:45am for his visit. I think they'll take him back to the O.R around 8-8:30. Not really sure how long it'll be. His first surgery was 5 or so hours so this should be that if not longer. <br />
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When we got back to the car, Cole fell asleep while nursing, Choked, threw up, and then dropped his head and fell back to sleep twice. Scared the crap out of both of us. We've seen that look one too many times to not freak out. <br />
And... Here's a clip of Cole enjoying the snow. He really loved it...<br />
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In preparation for his surgery we are being extra, extra careful about germs and will unfortunately be missing the baby dedication at our church this time around. Hopefully, next time.<br />
Cole is doing so well as you can tell from the pictures. All he ever wants to do is stand up on his legs.<br />
Thanks for your continued prayers and we will update you again on the 23rd.<br />The Sirianni Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12451594442072896852noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668792873278915877.post-1394241322244323262012-01-14T19:33:00.004-05:002012-01-14T19:34:08.567-05:00Christmas photos<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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